Chapter 48: Crisis
The moon hangs high and the starry sky is clear.
The air above the Forbidden Forest is very good, not because the British care for the environment, but because they have passed the period of industrial pollution, and polluting factories are built abroad. In addition, the forbidden forest is hidden and not polluted, and the continuous purification of the forest makes it particularly fresh.
The moonlight was bright, but the dense trees of the Forbidden Forest obscured the moonlight, leaving the curvy path dark. Without the lantern, Knicks couldn't see the road clearly, and he was a little envious of Filch's dark vision.
The trio and a dog slowly walked along the path paved with silver blood.
The Knicks were at the front, with Neville and Malfoy hiding behind him.
Neville was scared. The heartstrings were tense, and at the slightest stir, he turned his head to look over, clutching his wand tightly, his palms were full of sweat, ready to send out a distress signal at any time.
Malfoy's expression was distorted, he wanted to keep up with Knicks and Neville, and when he got close to Knicks, he would hear whispers, only Knicks' voice could bear it, but it was mixed with a woman's swearing, and he was tempted to kill Knicks from time to time, which was uncomfortable.
Far away he was scared, and he always felt that the shadowy trees around him were eyeing him, ready to pull him into it at any moment.
Frightened, he chose to get close to Nix, who was relatively tolerable about his chatter and harassment from women, and would be life-threatening if he was dragged away by a tree.
Instead of looking for the unicorn, Nyx was collecting potion materials and traveling in the direction of Voldemort.
Voldemort is chasing the unicorn, who is faster than him, and he chooses to take a detour.
The black robe slid on the ground and made a swishing sound, which was not loud, but it was particularly harsh in the quiet Forbidden Forest.
Malfoy's fear, and the whispers in his ear made him suspicious. The whisper faded away and he heard a whooshing sound behind him, thinking it was a tree branch coming to grab him, and he immediately hugged Neville.
Neville was also frightened by Malfoy's hug, and red fireworks came out of his hands.
Nicks looked back at what had happened between the two, and the first thing he saw was a blurry figure standing at the end of the path, pausing for a moment and entering the woods.
At this point, the surrounding trees tell Nyx that Voldemort is coming.
Knicks frowned, Voldemort was behind him for a while, and the trees sent the message, the delay was too great. If Malfoy hadn't suddenly hugged Neville, who was frightened and fired fireworks, the three of them might have been cold. Tree warnings are a bit unreliable.
Neville found out that it was Malfoy hugging him, and thought it was Malfoy playing a prank, and was so angry that his fat body trembled, and he couldn't speak. The wand in his hand was aimed at Malfoy, and he didn't cast a spell for a long time, he didn't learn the curse.
Malfoy looked at Neville and said bitterly, he was not afraid of Neville, he was afraid of the Knicks, and when Quidditch matched, it proved that there were too many people to beat the Knicks. He's looking forward to Neville attacking so the Knicks won't be able to do it.
Neville pondered whether to rush over and beat Malfoy, he was confident in himself, neither Goyle nor Crabbe had done anything to him, and he could beat a Malfoy.
"Neville, put away your wand, Hagrid, they're coming." Nix said.
Neville glared at Malfoy resentfully and said, "I'll let Hagrid teach you a lesson." ”
Hagrid was chatting with the centaurs when he saw the red signal and gave up on finding out what the centaurs meant by "Mars is bright tonight".
Arrived with Harry and Hermione and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Nicks stood up to Hagrid and said, "I saw a black-robed man wandering, and he made a 'whoosh' sound as he moved. ”
It's not a lie, Nyx did see Voldemort, but he looked back after firing the signal, when Voldemort was moving into the forest and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
He didn't hear the "whoosh" sound, it was the trees that told him.
The reason why he defended both of them was simple, Neville and Malfoy were his junior brothers. The two of them are naturally afraid of him, Neville is forgivable, his parents' affairs are there, and it is normal to be afraid of the Knicks. Malfoy made the Knicks unintelligible, but it didn't prevent the Knicks from accepting Malfoy as a younger brother.
Hagrid took Knicks' word for it, and he sensed danger. But Hermione, behind her, turned to Neville and asked, "Neville, did you see that?" ”
"No, no, it was Malfoy who hugged me and I sent the signal." Neville was honest and directly exposed the Knicks.
Hermione looked at the Knicks suspiciously. "You can't be a lie for fear of punishment, right?"
Although the Knicks have always been beaten when they are wrong, people change, and adults say it's growth. Hermione felt that the Knicks had grown.
Looking at Hermione's skeptical expression, Nicks was upset and said, "Believe it or not, I'm not lying anyway." ”
Harry glared at Malfoy, who felt that Malfoy had not done enough to fail, and that they were discussing the prophecy with the centaurs, and in a moment they would know what the centaurs meant by their specious words. Now it's all destroyed by Malfoy.
Hagrid made a change, moving Neville to his team and Harry to the Knicks.
The Knicks looked at Harry and Malfoy's eyes, and he felt that it was not at all inconsistent to connect the two of them with lightning now.
On the other side, Voldemort chased the unicorn in a shortcut and met Harry first, but Hagrid was keenly aware of the anomaly and took Harry and the others to hide.
Voldemort was careless, he didn't think that there were people in the Forbidden Forest, the robes he wore were too long, and the sound produced when he fell to the ground was too loud, not only Hagrid noticed it, but Malfoy also noticed it.
Voldemort missed Hagrid, but found the Knicks' team, and seeing that Knicks made him tempted, he wanted to arrest Knicks, and then write to his subordinates, asking them to take Knicks, and force them to ask for the formula for the potion, so that even if they can't get the Philosopher's Stone, there will be a substitute.
Of course, he is not afraid of three little wizards and a dog, and under the sneak attack, he can silently kill useless people and dogs, leaving Nicks alone.
If Neville doesn't send a signal, Voldemort has a whole night to deal with the Knicks. Hagrid would only find out after dawn that something had happened to the young wizard, and they had already completed the transfer before reporting it to Dumbledore.
Storming Voldemort after the signal is sent can still clean up the Knicks' team, but Hagrid is coming, and if he finds that something has happened to the young wizards, he will immediately report it to Dumbledore, leaving him too little time, it is likely that his subordinates have just received the letter, and the professors have begun to look for someone.
At that time, the subordinates will definitely be discovered by the professors, and the fight will cause the only few loyal subordinates to lose, and they will not be able to get the backup potion, which is too much of a loss.